Sambia tribe clubhouse

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This ritual lasts many years. Boys are removed from female company at around the age of 7 to live only with men in the clubhouse until they are married. They are forced to have regular nosebleeds and consume semen (considered essential to encouraging masculine growth and development). This hyper-masculine existence is probably due to violent tribal warfare, as well as being useful for hunting. There are actually six stages of the ritual, and even after a man has married and had a child, he is still not considered to have reached full manhood.